The nature and nurture of musical consonance

Music Perception

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 118-121

  Bowling, Daniel L ^a   Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Gill, Kamraan Z ^b   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CBLPath Inc   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Culture; Evolution; Heurobiology; Psychoacoustics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027401097     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/MP.2017.35.1.118     Document Type: Article

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